On 2015-01-01 14:33, Sami Kerola wrote: > * src/hello.c: Remove -h and -v options, and leave --help and --version > as they were.
Ouch, ouch, ouch! Maybe the GNU standards say nothing about short options, but it is *so* much a custom for command-line tools to recognize -h and -V for --help and --version, that I don't think it is a good idea to show as an example-to-be-imitated these two long options without any corresponding short options. You may wish to poke some GNU people about this directly. Karl Berry? Eric Blake? Maybe mister Stallman himself? Also, if you remove -h and -v, why not also remove -g and -t? Long options are nice for scripts, for clarity, so commands don't need comments. Short options are great (nearly essential) for typing things on the command line. Benno
